Human Rights
Rio’s Favela Residents Go to Copacabana Beach to Denounce Violence and Authorities’ Neglect
Hundreds of favela residents have rallied on Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Copacabana beach, weary ...
A Brazil Judge Rules Again in Favor of Land-grabbers, Against Peasants in the Amazon
Until this week, 80 impoverished families, camped for almost a year under black plastic ...
Goodwill Ambassador Brazilian ‘Narcos’ Star Is on a Mission: End Slave Labor
As a boy growing up in Brazil’s impoverished northeastern state of Bahia, Brazilian actor ...
The Killing Fields of Brazil: 61 Murdered Last Year Fighting for Their Land
A year after witnessing the murder of his friend by a gang of farmers ...
Latin America’s Homicide Epidemic Can Be Cured. It Just Needs a New Approach
In the 1990s, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province Medellin had one of ...
São Paulo Destroys Crackland and Offers Instead Forced Hospitalization for Drug Addicts
On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown São Paulo ...
Brazil’s People and Environment Pay Dearly for the Country’s Energy-hungry Mining Projects
In the late 1970s, Raimunda Gomes da Silva and her husband, João Pereira da ...
How Crooks Log, Mine, Enslave and Get Rich in the Brazilian Amazon
The Amazon is the sort of wild place where you often go looking for ...
Brazil’s Corruption? This Is Small Change. The Real Problem Are the 60,000 Killed a Year
Somewhere between outraged and perplexed, Brazilians have been bombarded with news about their political ...
Can’t Maintain Order? In Brazil They Call the Army
Brazil’s military is getting a serious workout these days. The authorities have recently deployed ...
